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You need to enable AI and Doc Gen in the Admin Console for your enterprise to make these tools available.
  • To enable AI & Agent Tools: Admin Console → Box AI → Settings → Enable AI API
  • To enable Doc Gen Tools: Admin Console → Enterprise Settings → Content and Sharing → Doc Gen → Enable Doc Gen
The file preview tool only works with clients that support MCP apps. Please verify that your client supports MCP Apps.
Certain tools are disabled by default and must be enabled by an admin. Please refer to the tool configuration guide for instructions on how to enable them.
Retrieving and applying classification labels to files and folders is handled through the existing metadata tools. Creating new classifications is handled through the existing create metadata template tool. However, applying access policies to classification labels is not supported through MCP and needs to be done in the Admin Console.
Some clients cache the tool list at authentication or session initialization. Try the following to fetch an updated list:
  • Refresh the tool list in the client.
  • Start a new chat.
  • Disconnect and reconnect the MCP Server.
If you disable a tool and it is still visible to the agent, even if the agent attempts to call the disabled tool, the call will fail so there is no security risk. Refreshing the tool list, reconnecting, or starting a new chat should resolve the issue.
Certain clients (such as Claude) require domain allowlisting for upload and download URLs to function correctly. For instructions on domain allowlisting, see this page on configuring the upload/download URL tools.